Re: K'tle morphosyntax

On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:16:56 -0600, Eric Christopherson
> <rakko@...> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Except for a few particles, all K'tle words are inflected (and
>>> referred to as
>>> predicates). The major division of the predicates is into nouns
>>> and verbs,
>>> but note that nouns take many of the same inflections as verbs,
>>> the most
>>> notable difference being that nouns have inherent gender.
>>>
>>> Words that might be classified as adjectives, adverbs, adpositions,
>>> pronouns, or quantifiers in another language are all considered
>>> verbs in
>>> K'tle. Verbs are inflected for aspect, mood (etc.), argument
>>> agreement,
>>> and syntactical function. There are four syntactical functions:
>>> primary
>>> (finite verbs), secondary, adjectival, and nominal.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to it. This sounds similar to a lang I'm working
>> on, what with there being only one main class of words, which is
>> inflected.
>
> Good -- I wonder how similar.
Don't worry -- not THAT similar. (I would write more about mine, but
I keep failing to hammer out the details.) Your description does
sound interesting.

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> Or maybe I should've gone into the syntactical functions instead?
If you'd like :)